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...either jerk away the runways so that the pilot cannot tell where to land, or they tip the nose of the plane down so that a propeller prangs. At other times they can be as nice as can be, even get invited by air-gunners into their turrets for warmth and companionship...
Robeson's great voice, stature, bearing were physically impressive. He gave a plausible impression of being just such a towering man as was Othello himself. More important, Robeson conveyed the bigness of Othello's nature-its warmth, poetry (nobody in Shakespeare utters lordlier speech), simplicity, trustingness: the clawing horror which seizes Othello when lago dupes him into thinking himself a cuckold could come only from an utterly unjealous nature...
...perform. Dolores Costello and Tim Holt, as her spoiled son, present the central conflict of the plot. The son, whose character is strikingly like that of Citizen Kane, lacks the one saving grace of the Ambersons--their charm. His narrow-mindedness and conceit contrast sharply with the polish and warmth of his mother. Yet his stronger traits triumph over her more delicate virtues, destroy her life, and dissipate the family fortune. Once again the main role is that of an unpleasant, cruel man like Kane, but for variation the audience is assured that bitter experience has made a better...
...course this is not the greatest mystery ever written, but it ranks high on the list of Brattle Hall's better plays, because it is acted by one of the best casts they have yet assembled. Miss Stuart, as Jessica Wells, performs with warmth and charm in a difficult, though short, role, requiring an ability to be gay at one moment and utterly wilted the next, depending upon the presence or absence of her husband. Robert Perry, who directed the play, also acted the part of Stanley Vance, the unattractive, unscrupulous husband, and succeeded in making himself so thoroughly hated...
Still, if you are not too skeptical about religious miracles and can endure Fleming's all too faithful rendition of the lazy pace of California paisano life, you may enjoy the human warmth that-for all its general inconspicuousness--endeared the novel and has not been lost in transition to the screen. The trick is to be forewarned and not to expect a masterpiece...